Lam Wing Sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-107). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iv / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Objective --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Why Expatriate Wives? --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Why Hong Kong? --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Literature Review --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- Domestic ldeal of Japanese Women --- p.6 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- Tensions between the Domestic Ideal & Non-domestic Reality --- p.7 / Chapter 1.4.3 --- Japanese Expatriate Communities --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4.4 --- Internationalization and Japaneseness --- p.11 / Chapter 1.5 --- Methodology --- p.13 / Chapter 1.5.1 --- Interviews --- p.13 / Chapter 1.5.2 --- Participant Observation --- p.15 / Chapter 1.5.3 --- Textual Analysis --- p.15 / Chapter 1.5.4 --- Reflectivity of the Researcher --- p.16 / Chapter 1.6 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.18 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Before Their Arrival in Hong Kong --- p.21 / Chapter 2.1 --- Trailing Spouses: Are they Passive? --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- The Existence of Married Single Posting (tanshin funin) --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2 --- Applying for the Relocation --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- We Applied for Relocating Overseas --- p.24 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- I Urged my Husband to Apply to Hong Kong --- p.25 / Chapter 2.3 --- Can the Company Order the Wives? --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Order from the Company? --- p.26 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Considerations for the Migration --- p.28 / Chapter 2.4 --- Selfless Explanations --- p.30 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Unawareness of Choice --- p.31 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Conforming to the Dominant ldeology --- p.32 / Chapter 2.4.3 --- Promote a Sense of Camaraderie --- p.33 / Chapter 2.5 --- Looking Forward to the Relocation --- p.34 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Short Overseas Experience with Good Support --- p.34 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- A Break from Work --- p.36 / Chapter 2.6 --- "Summary: The Strategic Use of ""Passive Follower""" --- p.37 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Adaptations in Hong Kong --- p.39 / Chapter 3.1 --- Isolation upon Arrival --- p.40 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Spatial Constraints: Images of Danger outside Japan… --- p.40 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Restrictions due to Role of Caregiver --- p.43 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Language Barrier --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Snapshots of Adaptations --- p.46 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Stop Escorting Children: Hong Kong is Safer than Japan --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Shopping at the Wet Market: Differences in Hygiene & Politeness --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Taking the Mini Bus: Learn to Shout --- p.51 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Dinning Out and Cooking Style --- p.56 / Chapter 3.3 --- "Evaluation of ""Hong Kong Women""" --- p.59 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Many Maids but Few Housewives in Hong Kong --- p.60 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- "Mixed Feelings about ""Hong Kong Women""" --- p.61 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- "Missing from the lmage of ""Hong Kong Women"": Obasan" --- p.63 / Chapter 3.4 --- Factors Affecting Degree of Integration in Hong Kong --- p.64 / Chapter 3.5 --- Summary --- p.67 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- After Their Return to Japan --- p.70 / Chapter 4.1 --- Factors Leading to Reverse Culture Shock --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Lack of Psychological Preparation --- p.73 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- Contrast with Hong Kong --- p.74 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Japan's Change over Time --- p.77 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- Nostalgia for Hong Kong --- p.80 / Chapter 4.2 --- Re-adaptations to Japan --- p.82 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Question the System: Why Should We Act Like This? --- p.83 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Act like Japanese --- p.85 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- "More Tolerance towards ""Others""" --- p.87 / Chapter 4.3 --- Summary --- p.88 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.91 / Chapter 5.1 --- Changing Image of Japanese Expatriate Wives --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2 --- Public Persona (tatemae) VS Real Feelings (honne) --- p.94 / Chapter 5.3 --- Japanese Women's Agency --- p.97 / Chapter 5.4 --- "Different Experiences in the Past, Present and Future" --- p.99 / Appendix --- p.103 / Bibliography --- p.104

The purposes of the study were to (1) investigate similarities and differences in household production of men and women in Finland and the United States, and (2) develop and test a structural equation model of socioeconomic factors (age, education, employment and family situation) for household production across countries and across sexes. The results indicate that (a) total household production of Finnish men is only slightly more than that of U.S. men (7 minutes); (b) total household production of U.S. women (417 minutes) is noticeably more than that of Finnish women (323 minutes; (c) equality ratios strongly suggest differences at almost all employment levels being smaller in Finland than in the United States and indicate that men contribute less time to household production; (d) socioeconomic variables explain a modest amount (3-5 percent) of men's household production but a substantial amount (21-23 percent) of women's household production; (e) the fit of the structural model across sexes and across cultures is significant, i.e., the variables explained similarly the causal effects for household production over groups. The results have implications for further development of cross-national time-use research tools and methods; for the development of a theoretical framework that includes both quantitative and qualitative factors related to sex role behavior in household production; and for the need to design separate models for the study of men and women. Data supported the conclusion that women in both countries still contribute the most time to household production. / Ph. D.

Academic fiction in its current form—as novels set on university campuses and focused on the lives of faculty—has existed since the mid-twentieth century. The genre explores the purposes and the cultures of universities and the lives of their faculty. Because universities have traditionally been insular communities that interact little with the outside world, the novels contain few non-academic characters. However, one non-academic group does appear consistently throughout the genre—the academic wives. These characters host parties, care for their husbands and children, and remain largely separate from the university structure. Although they appear in nearly all academic fiction, they have escaped notice by critics because they are secondary characters who exist largely in the background. However, a comparison of academic wives and their roles in C. P. Snow's The Masters (published 1951; set 1937), Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (published 1954; set in the early 1950s), and Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man (published 1975; set 1972) shows that these characters contribute significantly to the development of universities' cultures. Their roles both influence and respond to changes within the university structure. The academics' anxiety over the wives' potential influence on university affairs in these novels, and these women’s responses to this anxiety, enable the genre to explore the division between academics and non-academics within the university culture.

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This thesis studies the ways in which Swedish advertising agents tried to reshape advertising into a practise seen as working for the public benefit, and not just for economical profit of themselves and their clients. Earlier research on Swedish advertising has not paid enough attention to the advertising sectors ambitions to spread their views of advertising as a societal good during the 1930s. By investigating, among other things, the 4th Nordic Advertising Congress in 1937, which was held on the theme “Advertising serves society”, and the magazines Futurum and Reklam nyheterna, published by and for advertising agents in Sweden, this thesis shows that the Swedish advertising sector actively tried to represent advertising as an important factor in the improvement and modernization of Sweden. The arguments used to legitimize advertising as a question with relevance for the whole of society was intimately connected to ideals that are usually associated with the emergence of the Swedish welfare state, such as public health, social improvement, modernity and rationality. Earlier research tend to focus on the agency of the state in this period, but this study shows that also the private advertising sector of Sweden were embracing these ideals and playing a part in the processes creating these policies by advocating a society with more “propaganda” for things such as public health, better homes, and traffic safety.

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Work

published_or_final_version / Social Work / Master / Master of Social Sciences

Dual careers and mobility have become a way of life in this society. With moving often comes a loss of job for one of the spouse, usually the wife. This pilot study examined the effects of 'captivity' (the inability of a wife to pursue a career because of a mobile spouse) on self-esteem. Through the use of a demographic questionnaire and the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale, data was collected and correlations between mobility and self-esteem were derived. Results indicated that the self-esteem of a wife is affected by 'captivity'.

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the College Student Attitude Toward Female Victims of Domestic Violence Scale. Procedures used were a 12-day test-retest for reliability, experts assessment for face validity, and a principal component factor analysis for construct validity. Cronbach's alpha for test-retest reliability was .86.